Social Studies Websites

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Here are some random, yet wonderful sites related to Social Studies concepts:

http://nationalatlas.gov/
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/search/?q=*&selected_facets=supplemental_curriculum_hierarchy_nodes%3A62e1f8fc-e836-4f15-8130-9c6f1927720b&selected_facets=grades_exact%3AK&selected_facets=grades_exact%3A1&selected_facets=grades_exact%3A2&selected_facets=resource_distribution_type_exact%3A0&display=K-2 - PBS Learning Media Resources for Social Studies
http://readingandwritingproject.com/public/themes/rwproject/resources/articles/social_studies_resources.pdf - Teacher's College Reading and Writing Project (Follow them on Pinterest!)
http://d97unitedstatesregions.wikispaces.com/ - amazing wikispace designed to teach Regions of the USA
http://www.usps.com/communications/community/classroom.htm - United States Postal Service Kits
www.floridamemory.com - Florida Memory Project
http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/default.htm - Exploring Florida
http://memory.loc.gov/index.html - American Memory
http://authentichistory.com - The Authentic History Center
www.thehistorycenter.org - Orange County Regional History Center

Winter Park Sink Hole 2007

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com - Eyewitness: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
http://etc.usf.edu/maps/ - MAPS Etc.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_americas.html - Historical Maps
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp - Making of America
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php - The American Presidency Project
http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm - The American Civil War
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/index.htm - First World War Primary Documents
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha - World War II Resources
http://digitalhistory.uh.edu/ - Digital History
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu - History Matters
http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html - Google Earth for Educators
http://www.googlelittrips.com/ - Google Lit Trips
http://nj-history.org - New Jersey History
http://americanpresidents.org - American Presidents info./multimedia
http://historicalthinkingmatters.org - Thematic Units and resources K-12
http://historynow.org - Teaching Resources
http://waring.ed.ucf.edu/web_sites/index.html - Dr. Waring's website (multiple quality sources noted)
http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha - Oral History Association
www.ohs.org.uk/ - Oral History Society
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices - Library of Congress: Voices from the Days of Slavery
www.weeklyreader.com - The Weekly Reader website
http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/ - Archives of WW 1, the Korean War and the Cold War
www.ussnewyork.com - USS New York homepage (the ship built from the steel of the World Trade Center)
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers - Time for Kids magazine classroom home page
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/index.jsp - Scholastic News magazine home page (Click teachers then Scholastic News online)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/ - Educators main homepage
http://www.omart.org/ - The Resource Center at the Orlando Museum of Art allows all UCF students to its resources FREE of charge.
www.loc.gov - Library of Congress main page; American Memory Section contains maps, photos, documents, audio and video resources

www.cfmemory.org - Central Florida Memory Project; Florida Stories, as well as lists of photos, maps, letters, essays, etc.
http://www.gilderlehrman.org - Gilder Lehrman; search "The Collection" for rare documents (nearly every president and
significant historical event is represented); "For Teachers and Students" section has wonderful resources.
http://www.cfhf.net/orlando/index1.htm - Orlando Visual History; a great resource for Orlando history!
www.nationalmockelection.org - The National Student/Parent Mock Election Website; click on curriculum for ideas, games
www.whitehouse.gov - Virtual Field Trip of the White House and much more
www.keypals.com - Electronic (E-mail) Pen Pals
www.epals.com - Electronic (E-mail) Pen Pals
http://www.web66.coled.umn.edu - Electronic (E-mail) Pen Pals
www.kidlink.org - Classroom Information Exchange
www.classroom.net - Classroom Information Exchange
http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland - Ellis Island Online Tour
http://ellisisland.org/immexp/index.asp - Immigration timeline and bios
http://www.thinkquest.org/en/ - Create an online class project here!
http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html - Life in NY between 1870-1935
http://www.capital.net/~alta/tour.htm - Virtual tour of Ellis Island